Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, called for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be fired from his roles as head of the National Institutes of Health and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden due to the health official’s response to inquiries into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fauci, 80, has faced significant backlash from top Republicans and other critics over his initial dismissal of the possibility that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. He has also faced criticism for the NIH funding gain-of-function research connected to the Wuhan lab. Some…
